Literary Master 1978.

Chapter 91 God has eyes

The manuscript was handed over to Zhang Guangnian for final review, and Cui Daoyi was planning to contact the author Xu Lingjun. As a result, when he was smoking downstairs yesterday, he heard that the Contemporary Literature Editorial Office was going to publish a separate volume of Xu Lingjun's "Little Shoes".

Isn't this a coincidence?
As soon as he got to work early this morning, he ran to the contemporary literature editorial office, and he was actually caught.

Li Shuguang introduced Lin Chaoyang and Cui Daoyi to each other.

"Are you Xu Lingjun?"

Cui Daoyi's question was a question, but the admiration in his eyes could not be hidden.

"Hello, Teacher Cui!"

Cui Daoyi's face would look very serious if he didn't smile, but he always smiled. "Why call me Teacher Cui? Just call me Old Cui."

At this time, everyone was used to being called Lao X.

Lin Chaoyang readily followed suit and called out "Lao Cui". The two of them talked and laughed. Zhou Yanru, who was standing by, felt very uncomfortable and resentful as if someone was prying her out of her life in front of her.

But as she listened, she felt something was wrong. Lin Chaoyang's new novel was going to be published in People's Literature? Wasn't it given to October?

Cui Daoyi invited Lin Chaoyang to visit the North Novel Group, and Zhou Yanru followed closely.

Cui Daoyi signaled to Lin Chaoyang with his eyes, what is going on?
At this moment, Zhou Yan just wanted to know where Lin Chaoyang's manuscript was. She pretended not to see Cui Daoyi's eyes and followed the two to the office of the North Novel Group of "People's Literature".

If we classify martial arts novels according to their schools, People's Literature's position in the Chinese literary journal community should be Shaolin or Wudang.

The word "People" above its head destined it to have an extraordinary origin. Even though it is also a magazine with national influence, it is inherently half a head higher than other publications.

With the People's Literature Publishing House and the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles behind it, it has established a unique position in the Chinese literary world.

This literary magazine, which grew up with the new China, has demonstrated its significance to Chinese literature with countless classic works.

Of course, such an authoritative literary magazine is not without its flaws.

The problems existing in People's Literature are its strong political overtones and outdated literary aesthetic concepts. However, as Zhang Dening said privately, as an official literary publication of the highest standards, its conservatism and caution are understandable.

But even so, "People's Literature" still boldly published Liu Xinwu's "Class Teacher" at the beginning of last year, laying a solid foundation for the popularity and popularity of scar literature in China.

The layout of the office of the North Novel Group is similar to that of the Contemporary Literature Editorial Department, and even the editors are about the same age.

In terms of editorial division of labor, Cui Daoyi was nominally in charge of the Northern Novel Group, and the core force of the Northern Novel Group was the Yenching Writers Group. Cui Daoyi was naturally very happy when a new force like Lin Chaoyang joined them.

Cui Daoyi had finished reading the manuscript and went to chat with Lin Chaoyang about some of the ideas he had during the creative process. The two of them talked for almost an hour.

Cui Daoyi was still not finished, but Li Shuguang reminded him that Lin Chaoyang had to rush back to work at noon, so he had to stop talking and finally said, "Your manuscript is now in the final review stage, and I approve of it very much. If it passes the final review, it should be scheduled for publication in the August issue."

Lin Chaoyang nodded, "Thank you."

When Lin Chaoyang came out of Renwen Press, Zhou Yanru couldn't wait to ask, "Didn't you say you would publish your novel in October? Why is it published in People's Literature again?"

Just now, when Lin Chaoyang and Cui Daoyi were chatting, they never mentioned the reason for changing the publication of the manuscript. She almost got hurt from holding it in. Now she can finally ask.

"The content of my manuscript is quite sensitive and needs to be reviewed by the military. The military leaders thought the novel was very good, but they did not quite recognize the influence of October and wanted to find a more authoritative magazine."

"Ha!" Zhou Yanru almost laughed out loud after hearing what Lin Chaoyang said, but fortunately she held it back in time.

God has eyes. Do you, Liu Xinwu, think that you can publish your "October" by stealing Lin Chaoyang's manuscript?

This is really a case of the mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.

The key point is that the oriole didn't even move, and someone delivered it to his mouth.

But after being happy for a while, Zhou Yanru felt a little depressed again.

Not only did October not get the manuscript, but Yenching Literature and Art also didn't get it. This was a complete lose-lose situation, and People's Literature got a big advantage.

"Our Yenching Literature and Art magazine has quite a bit of influence. Can't you just think about us a little bit?" she said unwillingly.

Lin Chaoyang looked at her speechlessly.

Comrade Lao Zhou, can we be more realistic?
After returning home in the evening, Tao Yushu sat at his desk and wrote furiously after dinner.

Lin Chaoyang told her that there might be two payments of royalties coming to her in the next two months, totaling to about 1,800 yuan, and she just said "hmm". This calm reaction made Lin Chaoyang feel that something was wrong.

When did their little money-grubber become so indifferent when hearing about money?

He moved closer to the desk, where Tao Yushu's pen was still scratching on the manuscript paper.

"Where is the future of "scar literature" dominated by emotional values?"

"Yushu, are you writing a review?" Lin Chaoyang asked.

"Ah."

"Why did you write this?"

Tao Yushu stopped writing and looked at Lin Chaoyang with a serious expression, "I was reading in the library today and found two articles targeting you."

"and then?"

"It's only been a few days since you published that article, and there are already two articles. If this trend continues, there may be more and more after a while." "So what?" Lin Chaoyang didn't understand what he meant.

Tao Yushu stared with his big round eyes, "So I'm going to write a few articles to cheer for you. Although we don't care about the criticism, this kind of debate sometimes depends on the volume. If you always keep silent, people will think you can't argue with them, and readers may be misled into thinking that you are really sensationalizing."

Lin Chaoyang looked at her expression and felt it was so cute for some reason that he couldn't help but kiss her.

Tao Yushu was being serious when she was kissed out of the blue. She asked in a daze, "What are you doing?"

"Nothing." Lin Chaoyang took her hand and said, "The noises from the outside world are not worth wasting our time. If we have that time, why don't we hold hands and take a walk?"

Lin Chaoyang's voice was gentle. Tao Yushu imagined the scene he described, and felt a sense of happiness in her heart, but she still said: "It's not a waste of time, and I can earn royalties!"

"Huh?" Lin Chaoyang looked at her with a mixture of laughter and tears. You actually have such little thoughts in your mind?

The husband provokes a fight, and the wife churns out articles to engage in a war of words, and the royalties fly into her pocket.

Lin Chaoyang threw the picture out of his mind. Looking at her confident, energetic and high-spirited appearance, he really couldn't bear to discourage her.

"You can write, but don't tire yourself out, and don't get angry about these things."

Feeling Lin Chaoyang's concern, Tao Yushu felt a little warm in his heart, "Don't worry, I just don't want you to look too weak."

Lin Chaoyang gently hugged Tao Yushu. With a wife like this, what else could a husband ask for?
"How much did you say you could charge for the manuscript?" Tao Yushu asked in a muffled voice while he held her in his arms.

"About a thousand dollars."

One novel needs to be published, and the other novel needs to be published as a single volume. The two novels together have more than 130,000 words, so it is reasonable to earn a thousand yuan.

Tao Yushu frowned slightly when she heard this number, "You earned so much in royalties this year?"

Lin Chaoyang teased: "Why? Feeling the pressure?"

"Hmph, are you the only one who can earn royalties from writing? I can do it, too." Tao Yushu's eyes were firm.

"Five hundred!" She said the number and hesitated for a moment, "No, three hundred! I will definitely earn three hundred yuan in royalties this year!"

She looked stubborn yet cute. Lin Chaoyang said, "You can earn as much as you want, but don't tire yourself out."

Tao Yushu rested his head on his shoulder and responded softly with "hmm".

Time flies and it is August. The 7th is the day to check the college entrance examination results.

Tao Yushu, who had nothing to do during the summer vacation, accompanied her sister to the district admissions office to check her grades. After returning home, the two sisters looked very happy.

The current college entrance examination is a national unified examination with a total score of 510 points. The full score of each subject is 100 points, except for English. The English paper score is also 100 points, but it is calculated as 10% of the total score.

Tao Yumo studied liberal arts. She scored 510 points out of a total of 442 points in the six subjects of politics, Chinese, English, mathematics, history, and geography.

According to the information from the admissions office teacher, Tao Yumo's score ranked among the top 30 in the Yenching area.

This year's top scorer in the national college entrance examination is Ying Zhiqiang, a recent graduate from the Second Affiliated High School of Shanghai Normal University, with a total score of 454 points.

He was only 12 points away from being the national number one, and only 3 points away from being the liberal arts number one in Yanjing City. Tao Yumo was happy but also a little annoyed.

“Just three points!”

Tao's father warned: "The college entrance examination is only the first step in a long journey. Fighting for a short period of time will only blind your vision."

The eldest brother Tao Yucheng also comforted him: "That's right, being in the top 30 is also very good, at least it's better than your sister, right?"

Tao Yushu, who was standing aside, was plotted against by his elder brother and sneered, "At least I am better than you!"

If it were this comparison, the eldest brother-in-law would not be sleepy. He pointed at Lin Chaoyang and wanted to fire, but was stopped by Tao Yushu, who said nonsense: "Yumo, you didn't find your brother-in-law, but asked him to tutor you in writing. No wonder you didn't become the top scorer in liberal arts!"

"Hey, hey, hey!"

The elder brother-in-law didn't expect Tao Yushu to shift the blame to someone else. When he saw that his younger sister looked unhappy, he immediately wanted to make excuses.

"Okay, okay, stop arguing."

Mother Tao was annoyed by their quarrels. "Hurry up and fill out the form. Tomorrow, Yucheng and Yushu, you two will take Yumo to deliver the form."

At present, students have to fill out two forms when applying for admission, one is the college admission registration form, and the other is the candidate political review form.

Due to changes in the political environment, the intensity of review of candidates' political review forms has become increasingly relaxed in the past two years, which has loosened the restrictions on many students with bad backgrounds.

Filling out the application form was not difficult for a family like Tao Yumo's. Her father was from Yanda University, so her first choice was of course Yanda University, and she chose law as her major.

She only filled in the column of "National Key Universities" and didn't even look at the "General Universities" next to it. This was all because of the confidence brought by the 442 points.

Tao Yumo's seemingly reckless behavior did not attract any objection from his family. Although 610 million people took the college entrance examination last year, 40.2 were admitted, with an admission rate of only 6.6%, the situation this year would certainly not be much better, but Tao Yumo had the capital to be willful with his grades.

And this cannot be called willfulness, but self-confidence.

Tao Yucheng watched his sister fill out the application form and said happily, "This is great, there are two students from Yanda in our family. In the future, Xiwen and Xiwu will also be admitted to Yanda, and our family will also have four Jinshi."

The brothers Tao Xiwen and Tao Xiwu, who were scrambling for candies, had no idea what a difficult KPI their father had set for their studies.

(End of this chapter)